[ prp ] Nice Rack ( Xavier & Helmut )

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He was in a puddle on the floor.

Fortunately, not a literal puddle, because that would have been bad, but a puddle of what had once been raum demon shaped at some point in time. He was also wearing his usual furs and multiple layers, but at least this time, it wasn't the floor of his own room.

It was, in fact, the floor of Helmut's room.

He was also asleep.

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Xavier was sleeping.

Xavier was sleeping in her room.

This wasn't a notibly unusual occurance, though. Since they'd met, they'd often find themselves passed out on the other's floor on occasion. It just...happened. The only notible thing about Xavier sleeping on her floor today, was that she had to actually be quiet when she returned from her midnight raid of the creepteria.

Helmut was not good at being quiet.

"Ah-" She gasped quietly, after slamming her dorm room door closed by accident.

"Gah!" She exclaimed, as she dropped a piece of silverware on the ground.

"Jack-!" Came next, as he promptly forgot about Xavier's whereabouts, and tripped right over him after a foot caught him square in the back. The lanky pile of patched up laundry hit the ground with a solid thud, her plates - food, silverware, dish and all - clattered noisily to the ground, some shattering, some doing a loud dance on the floor before falling still. "--OOW XAVIER-!" She wailed at the top of her lungs, as if it were all his fault that her sneezecake was now thrown all over the floor.

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Well, he had been asleep.

He could have possibly slept through the door slamming. He might have been able to doze through the silverware falling. But he most definitely could not sleep through Helmut actually falling on him with a clatter and a crash of dishes, screeching, and a tangle of limbs.

Xavier's head popped up at exactly the wrong moment, feathered hair catching on one of Helmut's antlers. He gave a squawk of despair and jerked his head automatically, which in turn probably jerked Helmut sideways in the process, Xavier's arms flailing.

"HELLLMUUUUT," he wailed, just as loudly. "OW."

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The struggle was real. Her antler caught his hair, his retaliation pulled her to the side. Turning her head to try and get away only sent her other antler into his shoulder. It was a disaster. A painful, loud disaster.

So Helmut did what a Helmut does when things go bad.

She went boneless, and flopped down like a ragdoll.

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After all this time, he really should have expected this to happen.

Not necessarily this exact scenario but the everything that could have gone wrong was going wrong part of it all. And the Helmut wilting part of it all, because that was what Helmut did, and really, that was just what Xavier did too.

Nothing was ever accomplished.

Xavier stopped moving after a few seconds of fruitless struggling, then did the only thing he could think of to disentangle themselves and shifted. A flurry of wings and the clatter of claws on the ground and a flock of ravens now all stood staring meaningfully at where Helmut lay limp on the ground.

All of the birds said in unison, in Xavier's voice, "Are you okay?"

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Helmut remained a boneless mass of fabric and limbs, even as her friend exploded into a flock of ravens. The whole ravens thing always fixed their problems, but...

"M-m-m-my sneezecake..." She whimpered sadly, rolling over to poke at the smushed mass of cake on the floor. It was a pitying few moments, where she mourned the loss of her late night snack...but it ended with her picking up a bit of it off the ground and eating it anyway. She was not about to let it go to waste.

"Want some?" Rolling back over to face the flock, she held out her hand, and the crumbly mashed bit of cake on her fingers, in offering.

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The flock of ravens all blinked dolefully back at Helmut, then craned their heads to look at the smushed cake with a certain amount of sadness. One of them hopped forward, followed by another, until there was a cluster of black birds all peering at the crumbs on the floor.

"I'm sorry about your cake," they all said in unison, and then there was a flutter of wings and feathers and instead of a beak reaching for the cake on Helmut's fingers, it was Xavier's claws, his expression despondent (though this was hardly out of the norm).

"Does it still taste good?"

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"Yeah! It's just smushed-" With a sudden yelp, she withdrew the offered cake...and picked a hair out of it. She rolled into a proper seated position as she inspected the rest of the treat, and once it passed, she held it out for him to take, her back straight with pride. "Still good though!!"

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Xavier almost toppled over at Helmut's yelp, jerking instinctively, but then wilted back into his usual state of slumped shoulders as she passed him the newly hair-free cake. He put it tentatively to his mouth and took a small bite, giving a nod.

"Yes, it's good," he said, and shifted awkwardly where he sat. He was trying very hard not to think about things.

It wasn't working.

"Um. Helmut..." Xavier began tentatively, and then stopped, his face reddening.

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When Xavier took her offered smooshed cake, she flopped back to the ground, and ate her sweets right off the floor. Even if there was a bit of hair, dirt, dust or down here and there in the mix. Food was food, and her stomach was not picky; she'd eat rocks if she had to.

"Want s'more?" She asked, around a mouthful of floor cake, when she heard her name.

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"Er, yes, but, u-um - "

The stuttering nervousness was beginning to come back, in spite of Helmut being the most comfortable ghoul he'd been around and his best friend. Xavier tapped his claws together, feeling his face warming against his own will, shifting restlessly.

"Erm...I d-don't know if you r-recall, a few y-years ago, um - there was a - a dance....a sort of dance thingy, um, at school, and um..."

He was getting a distinct sense of deja-vus. Xavier sucked in a breath and then said, all in a rush,

"Do y'wanna go to p-p-prom with me?"

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Helmut stretched a boney arm out, to drop some cake in front of him to eat as he wanted. She was sharing! She was a good ghoul. A very, very good ghoul.

It took a moment for her to register what he was saying, let alone asking her. A few long minutes passed after his question, where Helmut quietly continued eating the floor cake - which was almost gone - and said nothing, because, well, cake.

Suddenly, with a shriek, she flailed her way to sit properly, all gangly limbs flying and eventually settling as she sorted herself out, eyes wide and focused on Xavier. She stared, like a terrified doe in the headlights, and then snapped both arms out to grab his shoulders, shaking him wildly.

"I NEED TO GO TO PROM WITH YOU" She shrieked, in full panic mode.

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For a long moment, Xavier thought that maybe she hadn't heard him. Maybe he would have to ask again, which sounded terrifying on a whole new level in and of itself, and he was beginning to hunch over, shrink in on himself, his shoulders slumping.

Shoulders that, a second later, were grabbed by Helmut, who shook him so violently that his teeth rattled.

"W-w-w-what?!" Xavier stammered, face flooding with scarlet. "W-what?! Is - is that a - a yes?!"

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"YES!" She shrieked, releasing his shoulders so she could tackle him with a hug instead. "I almost forgot about Prom..." The Wendigo admitted, whispering hushed into his ear as she pulled herself into his lap, curling in her gangly knees against her chest, just so she can fit against him better. "I was almost doomed forever!" The whispering continued, because it was a secret that she didn't want the Prom Gods to hear about.

"Still saving me~" She purred, chittering happily as she rubbed her cheek against his.

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His heart immediately grew ten sizes at her shriek of yes. Xavier's eyes widened, lips parting and then he was promptly almost knocked over as Helmut flung herself into his arms, a small yelp escaping. His face was approximately as red as his curtains, but he settled his arms around her, trying to ignore the happy fluttering in his stomach.

"Why w-were you almost doomed?" he asked, looking down at her, flushing with pleasure at the press of her cheek against his own.

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